http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5096736/posts/summaryTue, 28 Feb 2006 21:49:13 +0000http://happypanic.net/JeremyBlogger115http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5096736/posts/summary/116419283058328617Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:28:00 +00002006-11-22T04:54:57.071-06:00It was a lovely weekend with some lovely people visiting. On Saturday, Levi and I dusted off my disused copy of Blood Bowl and played a match. I'd played the 2nd edition of the game quite a bit in high school. Then a few years ago, I was in a software modelling course and decided to model an online version of the game. As I looked into it, it turned out there was a 4th edition of the rules (http://happypanic.net/2006/11/it-was-lovely-weekend-with-some-lovely.htmJeremyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/5096736/posts/summary/114116152243008156Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:14:00 +00002006-02-28T15:21:09.150-06:00Roger, Ebert, I read you: Study: Movie Critics Speak Even When They Don't Utter a Word (2006) For every movie I have seen in the theater since December 13, 2004, I have afterward posted a review of Ebert's review of the same movie. Perhaps it's time to crunch some numbers and give this project a real analysis, but the heuristic impression I'm developing during the execution of this exercise is http://happypanic.net/2006/02/roger-ebert-i-read-you-study-movie.htmJeremyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/5096736/posts/summary/112916710346873709Thu, 13 Oct 2005 01:30:00 +00002006-02-28T12:49:18.763-06:00Roger, Ebert, I read you: Corpse Bride (2005) (Warning: here be spoilers, though vague.) Tim Burton's disdain for the establishment and embrace of the misfit is so well ingrained that apparently even he takes it for granted. In Corpse Bride, it's obvious that he finds the titular character the more attractive of Victor's romantic options. Yet he gives the audience no reason to believe that http://happypanic.net/2005/10/roger-ebert-i-read-you-corpse-bride.htmJeremyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/5096736/posts/summary/114106892899740261Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:35:00 +00002006-02-27T13:36:39.403-06:00Roger, Ebert, I read you: Brokeback Mountain (2005) I don't have much to say about this one except that I congratulated myself while watching it for having predicted who would be the bottom. It's a very well-made movie that never stirred a single passion in me, and I'm not just saying that in a defensive hands-over-butthole kind of way. I remember when I drove through Casper, Wyoming with my http://happypanic.net/2006/02/roger-ebert-i-read-you-brokeback.htmJeremyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/5096736/posts/summary/113932830686172853Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:00:00 +00002006-02-07T10:05:55.630-06:00Roger, Ebert, I read you: The New World (2005) Ebert nails it. The most encouraging result so far of this exercise of reviewing Ebert's reviews is discovering that the more serious the movie, the more thoughful and well-written are his reviews. Perhaps he wisely apportions his effort in proportion with the height of the film's artistic aims.http://happypanic.net/2006/02/roger-ebert-i-read-you-new-world-2005.htmJeremyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/5096736/posts/summary/113699459749546786Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:07:00 +00002006-01-11T09:49:57.520-06:00Roger, Eber, I read you: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) The first ten or fifteen minutes are as expertly made as anything I've ever seen. You'll be hard pressed to find greater economy in establishing setting, sketching out four different characters, and getting the plot moving. As for the rest... it's about characters making interesting choices and the http://happypanic.net/2006/01/roger-eber-i-read-you-chronicles-of.htmJeremyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/5096736/posts/summary/113390349061790469Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:11:00 +00002005-12-06T15:12:50.316-06:00I just saw the most wonderful thing: snowflakes in mid-air, no more dense than a field of stars, not falling but floating, slowly, as many going up as going down, and many more moving this way and that, not so much snowflakes as sleepy snowflies.http://happypanic.net/2005/12/i-just-saw-most-wonderful-thing.htmJeremyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/5096736/posts/summary/113344756704816970Thu, 01 Dec 2005 14:29:00 +00002005-12-01T08:43:12.150-06:00Bumper sticker watch "Don't let the car fool you, My real treasure's in heaven." It's immediately reminiscent of the classic "My other car is a Cadillac", except that this one you would put on the Cadillac. Right? A statement of "I'm driving this camel through the eye of a needle," or "I'm having my eucharist and eating it too." Except the sticker is very trashy looking (white and yellow texthttp://happypanic.net/2005/12/bumper-sticker-watch-dont-let-car-fool.htmJeremyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/5096736/posts/summary/113098804265739443Thu, 03 Nov 2005 03:19:00 +00002005-11-02T21:20:42.666-06:00Roger, Ebert, I read you: Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) The instrument of [McCarthy's] destruction is Edward R. Murrow, a television journalist above reproach, whose radio broadcasts from London led to a peacetime career as the most famous newsman in the new medium of television. A television journalist with a career in television! This is the kind of sentence construction you might expect http://happypanic.net/2005/11/roger-ebert-i-read-you-good-night-and.htmJeremyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/5096736/posts/summary/113086308520646627Tue, 01 Nov 2005 16:27:00 +00002005-11-01T10:38:05.216-06:00Trick-or-Treater scorecard 2004 Most common costume, female: princess, then devil. Most common costume, male: skeleton. Number of trick-or-treaters whose costume was, apparently, themselves: 2. What I almost said to the aforementioned: "And you must be going as a Cool Dude." Reason I hesitated to say it: I would sound like an uncool dude. Most memorable costume: 10 year old boy with orange and http://happypanic.net/2005/11/trick-or-treater-scorecard-2004-most.htmJeremyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/5096736/posts/summary/112929582472743736Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:15:00 +00002005-10-14T08:17:04.736-05:00Channeling Mr. Dangerfield I tell ya, someone in the White House takes a leak, and we all have to hear about it!http://happypanic.net/2005/10/channeling-mr.htmJeremyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/5096736/posts/summary/112834913231652949Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:17:00 +00002005-10-12T20:33:51.913-05:00Roger, Ebert, I read you: The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) This is a strong candidate for Movie of the Year. Go see it. In a bookstore he asks a cute sales clerk one question after another, which works charmingly until she finds out he has no answers. This... does not happen. Consider... Andy's neighbors, who like to watch "Survivor" with him, although he has to bring the set. He does? http://happypanic.net/2005/10/roger-ebert-i-read-you-40-year-old.htmJeremyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/5096736/posts/summary/112834027571136981Mon, 03 Oct 2005 11:49:00 +00002005-10-03T06:51:15.716-05:00Overheard from the next room Seymor blew her nose, then exclaimed: "Oh! It came out!"http://happypanic.net/2005/10/overheard-from-next-room-seymor-blew.htmJeremyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/5096736/posts/summary/112774602391792194Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:45:00 +00002005-09-26T09:47:03.923-05:00Roger, Ebert, I read you: The Baxter (2005) We are informed early in "The Baxter" that "the baxter" is a term for the guy in a movie who never gets the girl. This came as news to me, and I expect it will come as a shock to my friend Billy (Silver Dollar) Baxter, who always gets more or less what he wants, especially when he wants a good seat in a restaurant Ha ha! Good ol' Billy Baxter. Yes, Ihttp://happypanic.net/2005/09/roger-ebert-i-read-you-baxter-2005-we.htmJeremyhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/5096736/posts/summary/112759242697327903Sat, 24 Sep 2005 19:54:00 +00002005-09-24T15:07:06.980-05:00Tech Support with ELIZA System Connecting to server. Please wait... 12:29:11 PM System Connected to quicken.ehosts.net 12:29:11 PM System Initial Question/Comment: Can only unlock run Quicken when logged in as admin. 12:29:22 PM System Roger has joined this session! 12:29:29 PM Roger Hi ! I am Roger. Welcome to Quicken chat. I've reviewed the brief issue summary you provided. Could you http://happypanic.net/2005/09/tech-support-with-eliza-system.htmJeremy